Terrifying Photos of Original Michelin Man

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The Michelin Man, the brand icon of Michelin Tires, was once an overweight, cigar-smoking beer drinker.

The 115-year-old character is one of the world’s oldest trademarks, and also one of its most loved. But early photographs of Bibendum, as the Michelin Man is also called, are nothing short of terrifying.

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Gallery: What we think Martians look like

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We’ve been conjecturing about life on Mars for centuries. In popular culture, the concept of intelligent life on Mars was championed by astronomer Percival Lowell in the late 1800s and his theories on the Martian canals. Science fiction writers — always game for some reckless conjecture — took up the banner from there. –GALLERY